Ara Bartlett (born

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, 1825 – died

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, November 17, 1883) was an American lawyer and judge who was the second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the

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. Bartlett moved to Kankakee,

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in 1853, the second lawyer to set up practice there. By 1858 he was serving as the police magistrate in Kankakee. He was elected judge of

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in 1861, serving until he was appointed an associate justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court by president

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in June 1864. In 1865 he was appointed Chief Justice by Lincoln. After his term expired, Bartlett practiced law for a time and then moved to

; in 1880 he was living in the town of

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. Bartlett married Lucinda Jane Eldred (1832–1871) on December 8, 1856; she was the daughter of Nathanial Eldred, a prominent Pennsylvania judge and politician. Her sister Mary Eldred married E. O. Hamlin, also a lawyer and judge. Bartlett's daughter Mary Hamlin Bartlett (1858–1896) married Joseph Adams Smith, who became Paymaster General of the Navy and a notable lecturer on naval history.transcription of bio of Nathanial Eldred, from Egle's Notes and Queries, 1895
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